Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-03-14
the people and press of Los Angeles
full and ample apology for It's inlu-
rious misstatements.
r,or,da rakes IA whack at Us.

Florida Takes "a Whack at Us.
The following letter was received
by the HERALD yesterday
EDITOR HERALD: | send you by
this mail marked copy of the jack
sonville MorRing NeDs, containing an
article puporting TO give the opinion
of two returned California prcspec-
tors on the country about Pasadena
and Los Angeles. Their opinion
seems to BIZ uniavorable to your Sec
ton of the state and does not tally
with what many Eastern people have
been led to suppose and generally be-
lieve, think. This article also un-
dertakes to make a comparison be.
tween Florida and California in favor
OF Florida over California, and ends
with the assertion that Florida is far
superior to California. have been a
winter resident of Florida for four
years, and am thoroughly convinced
that the state as place for perma-
nent residence is far from what it is
cracked up to be, and has many dis
advantages. Although l have.never
been in Southern California, do not
believe the assertion of the parties re-
ferred to is correct, and should be
glad to see it denied in the columns
-of your paper.
Respectfully yours,
G. II. SALTER.
1t seems that the Florida paperdug
up an interview in Vermont journal
With two returned California pros
pectors, whatever that may be, who
gave the Green Mountain editor sad
story about Southern California.
Here is specimen brick of the kind
of rot the "prospectors" got off:
81 had just as soon settle down
right on top OF a sand-bank here in
Vermont as live anywhere around
Pasadena, was Mr.. Moore's conclu-
sion."
There is no accounting for taste !;
but the fellow that could make such
choice as that would doubtless pre-
fer hades to paradise.
"In all these towns, Los Angeles,
Pasadena and the rest" Mr.. Moore
added, "there is no manufacturing,
no nothing, to support the population
except the money that comes from
the East. The people there all admit
it. And when the money quits COM
ing in, why, there's going to be a
drop, and a heavy one, too. Just
now everything is just lovely, and
real estate speculators are making
money but il man holds on too
long he is bound to lose. The abb
sence OF manufactures and commerce
makes it bad labor market, and all
this part of California is chock full oi
Eastern fellows who can't get any
thing to do. 1t is the worst place in
the world to go to in search OF EN-,
ployment."
Mr.. Moore is perhaps Of the tramp
species, and looked for work praying
that he wouldn't find it. "No, moth
ing here to support the population "'
Why, if MIR. Moore had examined the
record, he would have found that the
returns to Los Angeles county alone
for produce last year, amounted te
81 500 900; and this year they will
reach $40, ,O0O,O0 1t is true, we have
no great manufactures here such as
exist in the older States; but we have
industries that employ labor very ex.
tensively. No man, who is willing to
work, need be out of employment in
Southern California, and if Mr.. Moore
failed it was probably due to his own
incom potency or laziness. The Flor
ida News takes this flimsy interview
as text to draw a comparison
between that State and this section,
greatly favoring its own State as a
desirable place ior settlement. Now,
every body knows that the winter
tourists are abandoning Florida and
coming to Southern California. They
find here far superior climate, more
beautiful and attractive scenery and a
section in which it is constant de-
light to live. The two tramps who
imposed upon the Vermont editor
were either got up to order or made
re presentations which they knew to
be false. But they were good enough
Morgans for the Florida papers to
take up to try to make point against
the section which is rapidly thinning
out the everglades.